Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Author

Iyanuloluwa Oluwatosin Wintola

Sakarya University
Iyanuloluwa Oluwatosin Wintola
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
July 25, 2025
The book challenges the dominant mindset that historical colonialism is long gone, instead asserting that today’s data grab is a continuation of the colonial land grab that reorganized the world’s resources centuries ago, exploiting the masses and placing opportunities in the hands of the few. Historical colonialism and data colonialism are two parallel and deeply interconnected phenomena.

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